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Irish Life GAA Healthy Clubs Every Step Counts Challenge 2025 – starting 8th January
Full article here: www.leitrimgaa.ie/2025/01/irish-life-gaa-healthy-clubs-every-step-counts-challenge-2025-starting-...
Our 50 Miles Challenge might be on pause for the moment but you can still get the steps in this January ! The Irish Life GAA Healthy Clubs Every Step Counts Challenge 2025 invites club and community members nationwide to get active, connect with their community and support their GAA club for 5 weeks, starting 8th January 2025.
· Irish Life’s Health of the Nation Report 2024 has found that as a population we’re becoming less active and feeling more isolated
· The Irish Life GAA Healthy Clubs Every Step Counts Challenge 2024, which was facilitated on the MyLife app, recorded an increase of one million steps vs 2023 challenge
· 970 GAA clubs registered for the challenge in 2024, an increase of 181 clubs from 2023, with 125 from Connacht, 317 from Leinster, 268 from Munster and 263 from Ulster
The Irish Life GAA Healthy Clubs Every Step Counts Challenge, is back for a sixth year. The aim of the challenge is to create a healthier Ireland by encouraging people from all over the country to join together through their local GAA Club and get out walking over a five-week period. The challenge, which runs from the 8th January 2025 to 12th February 2025, is a country-wide initiative in partnership with Ireland Lights Up* and will be hosted on Irish Life’s health and wellbeing app, MyLife, allowing users to record and track their efforts and steps. Findings from Irish Life’s 2024 Health of the Nation Report shows that 60% of Irish adults are now overweight or obese, with over 3 in 5 adults under 35 also reporting feelings of loneliness and isolation.
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